Sabre Romantic Stories in Pictures #57
"Give a Dog a Bad Name" in Sabre Romantic Stories in Pictures #57 (1974) follows Linda as she falls for Barry, a man shadowed by a past conviction that her father refuses to overlook. Despite the odds, Linda’s determination leads to a second chance when her father offers Barry a job as a test—only for tensions to rise when drugs go missing and suspicion falls on him. A quiet, character-driven story with emotional weight, this issue captures a moment of fragile hope amid doubt, all rendered in the stark, expressive style of the era. Cover by typeset.
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Linda falls for Barry, but her father refuses to let her see him after he discovers that Barry had served three years in jail for robbery with violence. Linda sneaks out anyway and Barry tells her he was not guilty of the charges. Seeing Linda's resolve, her father agrees to give Barry a job as a test. Things go well until some drugs are reported missing and everyone assumes Barry took them.
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